When a political party polls the lowest share of the electorate at a general election in Scotland for well over a century, it’s probably quite safe to say that they are completely & utterly irrelevant.

Spiritually Labour and Tories are still better together. Unionism trumps left/right politics for many.
This is why many SNP constituencies cannot be taken for granted, and backup list seats may well be needed.
Previously labour and SNP voters would often vote tactically for each other in certain seats against the Tories. Now it is getting to the point where the SNP is the common target.

Could Alex Salmond and the Scottish Gov immediately raise the issue with Westminster that RAF planes from Lossiemouth have illegally broken the cease fire, bombed innocent people in Syria and used Scottish taxpayers money to pay for it. Thanks

Biggest cheers of the day at the anti trident march in England’s capital were for the most dangerous woman in the uk, Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon.

As for the labour nut (forgotten his name) on with Gordon Brewer today, he stated emphatically, time and time again the reason for trident was working class people’s jobs and it’s student fantasy politics to oppose trident as it is a done deal.

He failed to grasp or acknowledge the moral side to the issue, alternative ways of spending the £186 BN on education, NHS, roads, i.e creating jobs with money saved or the signal to the rest of the world, especially those countiries identified in Bush’s bizzare access of evil, that weapons of mass destruction is not the way for civilised societies in 21 century.

This is senior player in Scottish labour, a complete nut, his utterances are gold and run contrary to all that is decent, we need to see more of him and his words being attributed to the labour party in Scotland!

Why would a red tory hurl abuse at a blue tory, are they not kindred spirts. Are they not joined at the tit in their battle against a free Scotland, united in their struggle to keep their parties at the forefront of any expense’s going.

From previous thread, here is the archive link for Sinky’s article in the Herald on the Scottish Six:https://archive.is/wyMMl

They are still complaining about having to produce pilots at short notice. As Ian Macwhirter pointed out in his 2007 blog post, there are already pilots made in 2004 which demonstrate it is a success. The public have never seen them.

“I can well understand why the BBC didn’t show them to the public. As soon as you actually see a Scottish Six, you wonder how we could have tolerated the present arrangement for so long.”

Scottish broadcasting has been underfunded for decades. Deliberately so.

“BBC budgets are structured in a way that ensures Scottish programmes are technically inferior, and have lower production values.”

Budget constraints have been used for decades to starve Scottish Broadcasting of funds:

“Ofcom figures, quoted last week by the former BBC executive, Blair Jenkins, chair of the new Scottish Broadcasting Commission, indicate that current affairs spending in Scotland has been cut by 45% in the last few years and news spending has been cut by 27% Scotland’s share of total UK spending by the BBC is down to 4%, when it should be around 9%. “

This blog post was in 2007 and absolutely nothing has changed in the BBC attitude.

There was also a time when people were gullible and believed what they read in newspapers but thankfully that is not the case now.

Those of us who are more savvy are aware of the various political allegiances of certain newspapers and that the said newspapers do not in fact exist to inform but exist to promote the political spin of the respective parties they are aligned to.

Strange is it not that the Mail should choose to cast aspersions on Labour’s impotent ire towards SNP when the Mail themselves are renowned for their constant ( and surely impotent ire considering 2015 GE result for SNP ) SNP bashing and that they themselves constantly fail to highlight the REAL issues Scotland has with both Labour and the Tories.

Clearly the Mail reports the MINOR demonstration in a second hand capacity as to those who were witness to the demonstration it was painfully small as opposed to the Mail’s ‘Mass’ interpretation of attendance. However it was hijacked by Neil Findlay and other Labour troublemakers who obviously , just like the Mail, are more concerned with SNP bashing than holding the REAL villains , Ruth Davidson’s WM party , to account.

Note that they include the words ‘SNP cuts ‘ in their article thus helping to reinforce the very thing they are accusing Labour of being in their ‘ impotent ire ‘ towards SNP , and neglecting to blame the real villains who instigated this ,that is the Tory Government , in this ‘Minor’ demonstration.

#AnotherIronyBypass

Who cares about Ruth when she is merely another pawn and branch officer manager of another UKOK Party.

Ruth Davidson, no formal qualifications, trade or profession, BBC ligger, unemployed/able, Baron Goldie side kick, creeps in to Holyrood on list, came 4th 2011 with maybe a thousand votes, due mainly to some, ahem, financial unpleasantness with the last tory guy, 6 months later, Ruth takes Scottish Tory leader job, rest is UKOK history, most famous for announcing BetterTogether UKOK victory in Scottish referendum, on BBC tv, before polls had closed and or vote count had completed.

Scottish Labour forgot who they were quite a few years ago. Corbyn is trying to correct that in England but the rumblings are that his own party don’t like it.

I don’t think the Tories will come second. I hope not, I would happily see them poll single figures but I can’t see Labour doing much to demonstrate that they have much of a clue as to how to define who and what they stand for.

If he Tories were to come second it would be Labour’s own doing that brought that about and I really think Kezia would have some hard work on her hands fighting off a rebellion (if there are many left to rebel).

The Liberals want to get all fracking on Scotland took me by surprise. The 5 years with the Tories obviously did give then cooties.

If he Tories were to come second it would be Labour’s own doing that brought that about and I really think Kezia would have some hard work on her hands fighting off a rebellion (if there are many left to rebel).

She’ll come under massive pressure to quit from Pacific Quay and all the rest. Pacific Quay’s a sparkling ivory tower for all UKOK liggers and that needs a powerful SLab to survive the next five years and vice versa.

Corbyn’s own Labour don’t want him because the middle England that actually vote are happy, glorious and very UKOK wealthy, thanks to red tory Blair/Brown Labour and blue tory now. Lab ofocoure face tory BBC led hard core Con press, a lot more powerful in England than Scotland.

EU ref campaign farts along and just this morn, the great and powerful Andrew Neil explaining BBC style, the UK economy is the second biggest in the EU, which must be true, its Andrew Neil. He was happily fluffing an ancient EU outy Thatcher toryboy and he totally monstered EU in Labour guy, all the usual BBC interrupts, leap around subjects, cut off, scoff, mock, waffle and smirk. Much like BBC Scotland do to SNP everyday.

BBC Scotland and SLab, symbiosis keeps them both alive. Wiki says Symbiosis (from Greek ??? “together” and ?????? “living”) is close and often long-term interaction between two different biological species.

If one species keels over, it takes the other with it but who needs the other more symbiotically than t’other and how far can I stretch out this one:D

On balance, SLab will stagger along just, with the Holyrood list and BBC England don’t give UKOK rats arse what anyone thinks.

I bet Wee Ruth The Merciless was hoping she’d get some verbal abuse from her previous bestest friends in the Bitter Together Unholy Alliance, so she’d then be seen to be a shoe-in for second place in the forthcoming Holyrood election.

It must have punctured her self esteem when she was ignored as the irrelevant wee right wing Westminster worshipper that she is.

This is the Scottish MoS. I’m sure in the fullness of time the real story will come out.

I think we will find that Ms. Davidson felt anxious and intimidated especially when walking past the burly independence supporters standing, outside the chippie.

She was on the point of returning home empty handed but she steeled herself and decided that noone was going to stop her excercising her democratic right to buy her white puddin’ supper (probably with salt ‘n’ vinegar, unless for electoral reasons she now has salt ‘n’ sauce).

Just think, mibbie without Ruth’s shit stirring re:burly men, we might not have had to put up with the sight of our Colonial Governor pontificating at everyone from the Anti-Scotland Office.

They might have had to send up Michael Gove or something equally desperate and ridiculous.

Ruth is not as nice as newspaper editors would love us to believe and has happily cottoned onto the untapped potential of appealing to Scotland’s Orange vote and the arguably even more insane types who haunt the margins in Scotland and are publically represented by nutters like Ghengis Gill Stephenson the Deranged and Mad Old Tom Gallagher.

I think she is going to be very successful in uniting these bams under the same looneysphere whilst drawing upon obvious Tory voter demographics like the very rich, the elderly and the military.

This from the same archived article says more about UK/Westminster being a bully, whereas Scottish gov much more in touch with people.

” However it is regrettable that the letter goes further than simply recognising this. In so doing it does however reflect the underlying tension of two different directions of travel being taken by the UK and Scotland.”
Miller pointed out that while Scotland was seeking to better meet international human rights obligations, the UK government was retreating from them. “In the real world human rights are neither reserved nor devolved but are universal,” he argued.
“These times require all governments to put aside politics and better cooperate in upholding their shared human rights responsibilities at home and abroad.”

You’ve got to be fair to her though at least she says she wants to win

*The politics of who do we hate least*

Wee Willie(Stan Laurel)Rennie’s sole ambition is to get donations for his party to stop the SNP he doesn’t care about winning elections even when he says he does Lib Dems new Bumf is all about the SNP

The Labour party must have gone to the same Printer they want to stop the SNP as well

Used to be political parties talked about themselves and pitched offers to the electorate about what they would do for their country if they won, it seems in Scotland that’s no longer the objective
Lie, cheat, defame, fabricate evidence do anything to make you mistrust the other party which is the kind of politics that makes people mistrust you in the first place

I am waiting for the Scot Nat Mob abuses and bullies Ruthie headlines, several of them in fact and rattling on about them for several days. It is a pity for the Brit Nat Press and Media that she isn’t apparently a close personal friend of Eddie Lizzard or JKR.

Scotland’s problems start and end with the WM Tories (of both hues). Always have, always will. We had the chance in 2014 to get shot of them for good. If there are any Colonial Media readers/listereners out there who don’t understand that it is WM that STILL holds Scotland’s purse strings, that it is WM that is making these savage cuts and putting thousands of people out of work, that it is WM that is running the AUSTERITY AGENDA then these people really need to give themselves a right good shake.

And if they complain about these RED/BLUE WM TORY cuts (it’ll be your pensions soon too) then they should take a good long look in the mirror and repeat:

“I had the chance to get rid of them but I voted No in the IndyRef. I brought this draconian, Dickensian, despicable WM Tory Government upon myself. I am to blame.”

The Tories are just giving them a more logical home. The ones hanging around with the Labour Party these days are just the especially stupid variety occupying the same evolutionary niche as as Hothershallus Bullshitticus or the Foulksus Moroculous.

The term mass demonstration seems odd- were there no less than 100 folk outside the Parliament?

If the writer classes that as a mass demonstration, he would get a nosebleed if he’d attended some of the Yes events or BBC bias protests from the last few years.

Perhaps in the context of slab 100 devotees converging does represent a mass demo? Although there are still a few dinosaurs from their party writhing or twitching in the tar pits of Scottish politics their time has passed.

Ruth and slab are hardly going to fall out after walking hand in hand for so long. And now slab are slowly disappearing under the surface the Scottish tories and Scottish labour are more likely to cling together as they go under.

What worries, no intrigues me about Slab is whether when they end up third they will manage to find out who their real enemies are?

Looking at the case of the erstwhile Liberal Democrats does not offer much hope. Even their former leader is campaigning as Tavish Scott not as a LibDem, just like you don’t vote Tory anymore you vote Ruthie. In the same vein I suppose when you dont have any policy wonks anymore you copy Slab and cry SNPBAAD. Give it a week and it’ll be shoulder to shoulder with the Tories.

Is there not a cover we could put over Willie Rennie like my aunt did her mynahbird?

@ Euronews channel Planes from RAF at Lossiemouth are breaking the Syria ceasefire and are still bombing and killing innocent people. Westminster are breaking the ceasefire using plane based in Scotland financed by taxpayers money. Bringing Scotland into disrespect throughout Europe.

O/T
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.

In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.

Sassenach@5.37
Aye just watched it.
This is proof to the question, ” What’s the point if a Wullie Rennie?”
On the same programme the gadgie from the GMB union talking about “student politics”, regarding Trident, no disrespect to anyone on here who is in the GMB, but if this is your spokesperson, and are happy with it, I think student politics is to far advanced try colouring in books with pointy crayons.
His ilk is one of the many reasons I refused to give unions money years ago, he is obviously looking after no1.

Valerie, I popped over to Bella to have a look at that article. Wow! What a rant, and then the Bella editor turned up, such intolerance to criticism. Thats what he gets for printing such a crap article. Re the Syrian Obs for HR. Apparently its run by one guy down in south England who hasnt been in Syria for 20 years(or something like that, cant quite remember but close enough)

Ken500, So what if the Lossie planes were involved. They havent broken any ceasefire. It is only applicable to rebel forces fighting Assad, not Al-Nusra or Daesh/IS. They are still combatants.

Anyway, I guess if you put out anonymous campaign literature it stands to reason nobody will know who you are come time, so from that perspective her tactics are a resounding success.

Ruth who?

P.S. radio 4 had some guy on this afternon explaing how trident subs will be outdated before they’re built due to underwater drone technology. It was a good punt – can’t remember his name though. Just after the GMB guy saying Trident jobs or Rosyth a desert.

A ceasefire is a cease fire. @ Euronews channel is reporting that planes from Lossiemouth in Scotland has broken the ceasefire killing innocent people and are showing the collateral damage. With millions of viewers all over Europe.

That Bella article was riddled with inconsistencies, and myself and others have pointed up a few, as well as providing links.

There is a reference to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, which I have raised questions over, as the website is very odd. One man’s name, with lots of anonymous articles, making really serious accusations.

What I find so odd these days is that there is a General consensus about the lies and subterfuge of the Establishment here, but those same folk immediately believe and promote the lies and subterfuge, of The West, or other Establishments, such as USA.

Having learned so much about such things, it would be nice to even encounter neutrality, or an open mind.

Mike Small, if that’s who responded, was very peeved, about the article being questioned. Ho hum.

Drones: the current issue of the New Scientist has an article about these drone which seem to be pretty inexpensive compared to Trident. My first thought when I read it was, ‘Well that’s Trident b******d.

TBF, English has always been a nightmare for foreign learners. So many spellings which bear little resemblance to their actual pronunciation, countless examples but I give you Worcestershire (Woostershire), Featherstonhaugh(Fanshaw), lots of examples of where even multi lettered attempts to define a particular sound have in fact various sound options e.g. ‘ough’ in drought(drowt), rough(ruff), cough(coff), through(throo), bought(bot) other examples where the same sound is produced by different spellings examples bear and bare, dough and doe.

On top of that it has a non-systematic lexicography. Words can be created on a whim only requiring the appropriate prefixes and suffixes to fully incoporporate them into the grammatical tense scheme.

As such, it is virtually already a kind of Esperanto.

In that lies great strength in terms of growth and propagation but as a language for learning complex subjects which requires a systematic and consistent structure to its lexicography it is potentially very poor.

However, the flexibility of adoption also means that entire structured lexicons from other languages may be ‘borrowed’ as required.

So chemistry, physics, philosophy and medical teaching can be accommodated by simply borrowing a required structured lexicon, e.g.s Greek, Latin.

Ironically, Gaelic, were it more universally known, could be used for such things.

Been watching the Big Sky news Papers bit
The Tories own rotten to the core tactics have all caught up with them now
The crap they used on us has turned on themselves big time now they’re talking about Tory leadership challenges already and it hasn’t even got going yet

With a little bit of luck the Tories are about to eat each other over this EU Ref and the English voter having heard some of what they did to us and didn’t believe it at the time are catching on to the fact, Hey maybe those Jocks were right

And you know for sure when the truth starts to ooze out because the Twitter Yoon Trolls are going ballistic with the insults, they certainly don’t like this taste of their own medicine

Yes it is a very difficult language to learn, and poses huge problems for those with Dyslexia. My older son makes up some interesting spellings for words on the rare occassion he writes anything down.

Now though, thankfully we have technology, he can speak into his phone, for much of what would usually be texts or other messages for the rest of us. I hear that English is one of the worst for those with serious Dyslexia.

Brother has had some bumf from Ruthie asking for his second vote. Hasent the courage of her convictions to stand on the primary vote. She also says who he shouldn’t vote for which didn’t leave him much choice for his first vote.
My brother saw Winnie into WM so Ruthie is pissing in the wind with him.
The sub will soon be obsolete just as the tank has become. How ever the conventional forces are cut to the bone and that’s where money saved from Trident should go.

Have to say, I was in the chamber whilst the demonstration was going on and was listening to Swinney’s budget debate. I left as soon as Willie Rennie stood up and started to speak! I was outside the building heading off when Ruth Davidson came around the corner and she was extremely buoyant, chirpy and told me she was about to return to the chamber for final statements. However, this was well after the demo had been and gone – no doubt many rendered short of hearing from Kezia’s bawling through her megaphone – maybe it had ‘Jim M’ stamped on it!

Also in February 2015, a senior lawmaker disclosed that Iraq’s army has shot down two British planes as they were carrying weapons for the ISIL terrorists in Al-Anbar province.

“The Iraqi Parliament’s National Security and Defense Committee has access to the photos of both planes that are British and have crashed while they were carrying weapons for the ISIL,” Head of the committee Hakem al-Zameli said.

Saville was a Tory. Thatcher’s and the establishment best friend. They were involved with and covered up his heinous crimes. Kept it secret. Under the Official secrets Act. Still do. Abusing and raping children. It is absolutely appalling. Children were not safe around them and the Law is not enforced.

It gives a new dimension to ‘All together’. The royal connections and campaign focused on child mental health. Absolute and lying hypocrites.

The abuse, rape, imprisonment, drugging, threatening and murder of children goes right up to the Westminster/US Establishment and is protected by it. It is absolutely evil to the core and interconnected. Any victims or investigators that come forward are imprisoned or murdered. It goes right to the top of the Establisment. Those who are supposed to protect children instead use and abuse vulnerable children and cover it up. It is endemic in the Political system and establishment. Criminals get away with abuse and murder. It is absolutely appalling. @ Craig Murray blog.

Scottish MP’s should raise it in Westminster. Or will these Reports continue to be covered up. The Westminster/Establishment and their associates are complicit in these matters, This is still being covered up by Westminster political Parties.

From the bottom to the top the British establishment is corroption and commits heinous crimes and covers it up. Under the Official Secrets Act. The Scottish MP’s must take it up for the sake of the vulnerable/children. The corruption is outrageous in any supposed civilised society. Chikdren and the vulnerable are not safe from the Britsh establishment, rotten to the core.

And SNP supporters know better than to hurl abuse at any unionists as it would end up front page news. Weirdly, many unionist politicos turned up at my work pre ref, including Ruthie and Fifes very own current wingman to the Dug Alex Rowley. Rowley seemed nervous and Ruthie was delighted when I asked if she was indeed herself. When she confirmed I merely nodded and backed away as if she were about to detonate.

Here’s a few carefully chosen words of criticism of Sturgeon posted by one regular unionist sociopath on Heseltine’s non-moderated acrid car site ‘Pistonheads. (A car site for men who can’t relate to people.) ‘The poster goes by the name ‘Technodup’, a monomanic sociopath who keeps repeating the same reflex hatred day in, day out.

Enjoy

“Innit. Hen, Cameron can do what the fk he likes, he’s the Prime Minister of the 7th biggest economy on the planet, which includes Scotland, whether you like it or not. (And incidentally he has the right to call or not call independence referendums, you don’t. The only thing which ‘triggers IndyRef2’ is Cameron saying so).

You on the other hand are a rabble rousing wee ahole, temporary top dog in a glorified PTA committee who will do or say anything to get the only thing you have any interest in, no matter if it’s actually good for people or not. But this is your moment, your opportunity, your 15 minutes of fame- if you don’t get what you want (and I don’t think you will) then you are going to be one bitter wee old woman into your old age. And I for one will enjoy you carping on from the sidelines as your successor does a Swinney and returns the SNP to rightful irrelevance.

She turns my stomach. She is my MSP so I’m partly minded to go and ask her to concentrate on actually doing the things she’s elected for but I’d be scared I’d end up banjoing the wee runt.”

The UK doesn’t have the 5 bigget economy in the world per capita and debt. That is a lie It has a larger economy because of size (pro rata) It a lie connstructed to deceive the ignorant. False accounting.

Per capita and debt the UK is way below on the prosperity, equal tables.

It is smaller countries which lead the tables most prosperous, more equal, happiest countries in the world. The majority of the EU countries are more prosperous economies per capita/ debt, and are more cohesive, equal and happier than the US/UK.

Eg Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands? Switerland, Singapore, Saudi .They are the most prosperous, economies. Some are more equal, cohesive, healthy and happier. Scotland could be there if Independent. UK governance holds Scotland back. Westminster policies illegally and secretly takes Scotland resources and damages the Scottish economy.

UK/US although larger economies (pop/size wise) pro rata are not so prosperous per capita and debt, The UK/US carry the most debt in the world per capita. Rest of the UK/US carry the most debt in the world per capita. The debt is increasing per capita.

Cameron is increasing finding he cannot do ‘what he likes’. It is highly likely he will not continue much longer. Stabbed in the back by his own Party. Half of whom do not support him. Fighting like rats in a sack at the expense of the UK economy. Preying on, molesting and abusing children/the vulnerable. Typical. Cameron/Osbourne’s days are numbered. Total failure.

” But one senior (BBC) staffer I spoke to last week, whose enthusiasm for broadcast journalism and Scottish culture and current affairs is normally boundless, seemed visibly sickened by the callousness of last week’s events and the absence of leadership at Pacific Quay.

“What you have to understand,” he said, “is that the BBC in London is regarded as having magical powers. I’ve now come to accept that nothing of what is deemed to be important can ever happen outside London unless it goes through the Ministry of Truth at Broadcasting House. It’s all about control. I sat in a staff meeting last week with our new news editor to discuss what was going on with the Scottish Six, as no one had previously thought to tell us. He must have mentioned ‘London’ about ten times in his address to us.”

What I find interesting and encouraging is that Labour in Scotland cannot shake off its dalliance with the Tories in the Better Together campaign and has forgotten they were founded to combat Toryism.

They are giving their new friends the Tories a free field to sail past them for May’s election as they go through convulsions of idiocy attacking the SNP.

The Tories in Scotland are led by a person who dropped from third place in a Glasgow seat to fourth at the last election with 1,500 votes and who has made no political statement of any weight at any point. She doesn’t have to. By default she may end up leading the biggest opposition to the SNP after May with less than 20% of the vote

If SLAB want to avoid the humiliation of third place in May, they have to quickly turn and face the blue tories, who are quietly pinching their unionist votes. The SLAB obsession and persistence with the unsuccessful SNP BAD narrative will bring little return. They have little time left to face the blue tory challenge. Not that I care, just a bit of free advice. 🙂

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